Live And Let Die

Lets get it straight out right away; Live And Let Die is a confused mish-mash of Bond meets Shaft. It doesn't know what it wants to be or where it wants to go and the result is terrible.

The CIA, in both Rosie Carver and Felix Leiter, is shown to be incompetant. The action is dire - the car chase is a direct sequal to that from Diamonds Are Forever, but with nothing new to offer except cop car upon cop car being wrecked it plays it too slapstick. Bad enough the first time we saw it, but now completely dull.

Is there anything worth rescuing from this mess? Well, Jane Seymour is good as Solitaire, but her lines are often poorly thought out. And the sequence in Bond's flat and the Italian agent are amusing, although it seems unlikely that M and Moneypenny should visit him at home. Apart from that the answer is a big, fat, NO!

 

Roger Moore	James Bond
Yaphet Kotto	Kananga/Mr. Big
Jane Seymour	Solitaire
Clifton James	Sheriff J.W. Pepper
Julius Harris	Tee Hee
Geoffrey Holder	Baron Samedi
David Hedison	Felix Leiter
Bernard Lee	M
Lois Maxwell	Miss Moneypenny
Director	Guy Hamilton
Screenplay	Tom Mankiewicz

 

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